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The Zenith Passage
Metal - Released July 21, 2023 | Metal Blade Records
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Photek
Dance - Released January 1, 1997 | Science
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Time and space are basically concepts to explain the course of events; what unites them is rhythm. So it is not fat-fetched to say Rupert Parkes (Photek) bridges both time and space on his full-length debut. He crafts drum & bass patterns of different tonal qualities and layers them with breaks of such rhythmic complexity that it subtly entrances the listener. Realizing that music's backbone is the beat, Parkes works everything off it, varying the tones of his percussion and using sampled sounds to create rhythm, all of it accented with ambient washes or spacey synth fills. But never do things stray far from the pulsing beat, and his methods enthrall. "124" sets a moody atmosphere over an understated techno beat whose impact is tempered by Parkes percussive use of handclaps, drum, and cymbals. Sometimes the vibe is jazzy, whether in the soft, rainy-night piano of the title track, or the snappy, exquisitely sampled jazz drumming on "KJZ" and "The Hidden Camera." His choice of sounds is always unusual and often effective: the muted, underwater steel-drum sound at the base of "Minotaur"; "Trans 7" with its sounds of rushing vehicles; the spacey digitized underpinning of "Aleph 1." Many of these tracks were previously released as 7", but taken as a whole, this album acquits itself as the work of one of electronic music's visionaries.© Chris Parker /TiVo
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Axiom Verge (Original Soundtrack)
Thomas Happ
Electronic - Released March 30, 2015 | Thomas Happ
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Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Jazz - Released August 28, 2020 | Ropeadope
Trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah has released a steady flow of adventurous, genre-bending studio albums, yet it's his live performances that often reveal just how accessible, emotionally visceral, and funky his ethereally textured brand of fusion actually is. It's a vibe he cultivates on his third concert album, 2020's Axiom. Recorded live at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club in March 2020, the set follows on the heels of his Grammy-nominated 2019 record Ancestral Recall and features almost the same group with flutist Elena Pinderhughes, pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Kris Funn, drummer Corey Fonville, and percussionist Weedie Braimah. It's also essentially the same group with whom Scott recorded his 2015 LP Stretch Music, as well as his ambitious 2017 Centennial Trilogy of albums: Diaspora, Ruler Rebel, and The Emancipation Procrastination. In that sense, Axiom works nicely as an overview of Scott's work, showcasing his organic blend of expansive fusion harmonies, skittering electronic-influenced rhythms, and acidic, effects-laden improvisations. The album opens in dramatic fashion with "X. Adjuah (I Own the Night)" off Ancestral Recall. Built around an introspective, minor-key piano riff, the song builds in intensity as Scott lays down a psychedelic flamenco-sounding melody. Equally compelling is his woozy dreamscape take on David Crosby's 1968 composition "Guinnevere." Building upon Miles Davis' rendition from 1979's Circle in the Round, Scott's version is fiery and celestial as he dives headlong into Field's syrupy organ chords and Fonville's spiraling drum groove. While Scott's mutative trumpet playing is certainly the focal point of Axiom, he's also not afraid to share the spotlight, giving plenty of space for his bandmates to stretch out as Pinderhughes does on the buoyantly earthy "Diaspora." It's also illuminating to hear just how much Braimah's African djembe playing informs the overall sound of the band, as on the kinetic "Sunrise in Beijing." Aurally expansive, global in scope, and rife with an emotional immediacy, Axiom is the perfect distillation of Scott's work in the 2010s.
© Matt Collar /TiVo
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Axiom Verge 2 (Original Soundtrack)
Thomas Happ
Film Soundtracks - Released August 11, 2021 | Thomas Happ
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Axiom Of Choice
World - Released January 1, 2002 | Narada
The name of this provocative global-minded ensemble comes from a mathematical term which helps define their desire to improvise on a theme, even within the parameters of traditional song form. While remaining true to their Persian roots, they incorporate the sounds of other cultures, with the end result being to make Persian music more accessible to people from foreign cultures. Led by founding guitarist and diwan player Loga Ramin Torkian, their progressive sound incorporates the quarter-tone guitar, saz, diwan (Middle Eastern lutes), the Armenian duduk (oboe), clarinet, electric cello, and other global percussion instruments. The focus here is creating unique and seductive interpretations of Raga Omar Khayyam's evocative poetry, and most of the tracks here have corresponding passages in the liner notes. The passage for "Mystics and Fools" talks about being drunk on precious wine, and there is a trippy, lighthearted spirit about the song as well -- it sounds like joyful and danceable harem music driven by clarinet, diwan, and jangling percussion. "Evanescent" features a more contemplative verse, and thus is more mystical and ambient (Torkian is even credited as playing the "ambient guitar"). "Parting Ways With the Soul" features Mamak Khadem's passionate-plea vocals over a moody acoustic bass and cello line. The tone throughout varies between this kind of melancholy contemplation and rapturous expressions of frenetic joy.© Jonathan Widran /TiVo
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Ylayali
Alternative & Indie - Released September 2, 2022 | Dear Life Records
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Axiom Of Choice
World - Released January 1, 2000 | Narada
Axiom of Choice is a 12-piece band of richly gifted musicians. Their debut CD, Niya Yesh, was inspired by the city of Pushkar, India. "Niya yesh" means "a direct communion with God." This is a wonderful set of deeply spiritual and religious offerings. In order to foster deeper synthesis with the collaborators, they recorded this set in India, the Middle East, and the U.S.A. Mamek Khadem, lead vocalist, and Loga Ramin Torkian, guitarist, wrote all of the original music and lyrics. They appear to be the "core" of Axiom of Choice. Some of the more notable guests are Greg Ellis (of Vas) on percussion, Cameron Stone (also of Vas) on cello, and Dave Stringer on harmonium, vocals, and tempura. The other performers are not as well known, but the music shows that the talent is deep and rich. It is easy to get lost in this soundscape.© Jim Brenholts /TiVo
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Funkcronomicon
Axiom Funk
Rock - Released January 1, 1995 | Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
Producer Bill Laswell's Axiom project Axiom Funk was launched under the auspices of a "supergroup," and was certainly one of the most far-reaching and vibrant collections of funk to emerge -- astonishingly long after the genre's heyday. P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell was initially the flashpoint for the project's Laswell/Parliament/Herbie Hancock core, his associations fortuitously coalescing just as Laswell was striving to expand his Axiom empire. Bringing together key players from all decades, he then twisted the mix with clever combinations of newly recorded material and sessions recorded long ago but never released. The Sly Stone tracks were recorded during Maceo Parker's All the Kings Men period, while the Eddie Hazel tracks were among the last he ever recorded, shortly before his death in late 1992. In all its guises, however, Funkcronomicon is a masterpiece. From the old-school jams of George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Worrell, and Hazel to Hancock's jazzed-out funk and the righteously fresh sounds of reggae rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, this fat double disc really packs a punch. Add the alternative rock stylings of Anton Fier, best known for his work with the Feelies and the Golden Palominos, and the resulting brew is almost unbelievable. Tracks previously released -- "Cosmic Slop," "Pray My Soul," "Sacred to the Pain," "Sax Machine," "Telling Time," and "Tell the World" -- are cunningly interspersed with new and unreleased material. And, in the end, although old and new schools rub smooth shoulders, it's hard to tell where one ends and another begins.© Amy Hanson /TiVo
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The Axiom of Post Inhumanity
Brutal Truth
Metal - Released November 11, 2013 | Relapse Records
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Axiom Of Choice
Fragment Soul
Metal - Released May 7, 2021 | Sleaszy Rider
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